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We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
-Benjamin Franklin
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We Are More Heavily Taxed By Our

Benjamin Franklin
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
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Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. we are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
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Taxes are indeed very heavy - we are taxed twice as much by our idleness. three times as much by our pride. and four times as much by our folly.
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Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves, tax it. if it keeps moving, regulate it. if it stops moving, subsidize it. ... the problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." one reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. it is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.
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Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. if there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. if there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a napoléon, hitler or stalin and are ready to die for him. if there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.
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Tax time approaches, and americans are as always paying h & r block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. pitiful, in a way: it underlines the grim but unacknowledged fact that the government is their enemy and they have to hire protection from it. but don't we enjoy 'self-government'? well, if we have it, i'd hardly say we enjoy it. true, we aren't being taxed by the monarch of great britain, but our american-born rulers claim far more of our wealth than the british monarchs ever did.
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